Chess Essay

themselves and choose their own way instead of follow their mom 's advises. Waverly Jong was a chess genius when she was a teenager. However, Her mom keep forcing her to practice chess during her free time and requires her to win all tournaments. The pressure makes Waverly hates playing chess and she finally decide to stop playing chess. The author has described how Waverly mom (Lindo) teaches her daughter to play chess and how she gives the pressure to her daughter in the book. Amy Tan…

technology and pair it with natural human intelligence, it could form something that could turn out to be more valuable in the future. Back on the topic of chess, Thompson supports his statement by talking discussing Crampton and Stephen, amatuer chess players, and how they used the Centaur method to their advantage in a chess game. The duo won their chess match because they knew how to collaborate with computers, "They knew when to rely on human smarts and when to rely on machine's advances,"…

Amy Tan author of The Joy Luck Club and many other books, though born in Oakland California traces her (family line/lineage/ancestors ) back to china. Tan’s parents had hoped her to be a doctor or concert pianist but at the age of ___she published (JLC). While living in oakland her family belonged to a group started by her mother, made up of other Immigrant families similar to theirs, who bonded together sharing stories, food, and playing the stock market. Her Book the Joy luck club is an…

Waverly Jong, grew to be well known as she triumphed in her quest to be a chess champion. However, she had multiple personalities. One example of this was when she received a pack of Life Saver candy as a Christmas present, where she did not complain like most children would, but was very grateful (Tan 500). Instead of being depressed of her gift she made the best of it by using it as chess pieces and bartering for games of chess with an elder in the park. Another example was when she became…

Thomas is the protagonist and the lead singer in the band, and Junior and Victor are the other two band members who play guitar and drums. Chess and Checkers aren’t introduced into the story until a few chapters in but they eventually join the gang and perform with Thomas and his band.Thomas was picked on quite frequently as a kid and Victor had played an active role in this teasing. Victor…

the chess tournaments everytime. Also, when Waverly was nine, she had won the national chess championship, which was so obsessed with her competing in chess to where her brothers had to do the chores for Waverly so she can practice more chess. In this case, Lindo also made her stop playing with other people, suddenly, her mother starts showing off Waverly as her own pride, and Waverly said "Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play…

allows you to learn more than what you learn in the curriculum and be prepared for any forks in the road. I have demonstrated inquiry through extra-curricular activities by working and asking questions with peers in karate, use critical thinking in chess club, wonder what may happen next in the book I’m reading in the Red Maple reading club, and more. I’m always striving to gain more knowledge by participating and asking many questions in anything accessible to myself. Karate is one of the…

Shuying Pan and Guohuang Chen with a brother older than him by 1 year named Zheng and 3 years later, a sister named Ying Mei. He was a very smart and ambitious child. A passion of his that started from that age was chess and to this day my dad still loves to play chess. He would play chess whenever he had the chance, he would play against his friends or his dad. He’s even placed in the top 3 places…

in positive ways more than we think it impairs us. In the beginning paragraph, Thompson asks a question “Who’s better at chess---computer or humans?” In order to beat any human or…

develop their projects and ideas for the Lego League, which consists of designing and building something related to the annual theme with Legos, and then programming it to mimic human or animal movement. In addition, at my school, there was no formal chess club and yet I knew a few people that…